Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-09
ROUGHLY HANDLED.
The Evicting Bailiffs at Bodyke,
Ireland, Energetically Re-
sisted.
They Finally Succeed, Aided by Troops,
in Clearing the HOuses-Alaska
Sealers.
The Canadian Government Charges the
Authorities of Alaska With Cruelty
and Injustice.

DUBLIN, June 4-Evictions at BodyEe
continue, but the tenants are Offering all
the opposition in their power to the sheriff
and his guard of police and troops and find
various means of seriously annoying the
officers. In some of the houses from which
the occupants " ere to be evicted cayenne
pepper was burned, the fumes of which
nearly choked the bailiffs. Boiling water
was also thrown from the windows upon
the eVlctlng force. AT two houses where
evictions were effected collisions occurred
between the police and the people, and
number OF arrests were made. When the
sheriff's force arrived at The house Of
tenant Lyddy and ordered the family to
leave, daughter of Mr.. Lyddy threw an iron
hoop at a bailif who attempted TO enter the
door. She was arrested. Her brother was
also arrested for melting the crowd to vio-
lence against the police. Another daugh-
ter who denounced the treatment her fam
lily were receiving was struck by a police
man and felled to the ground This
maddened the crowd and they advanced
for the purpose of attacking the officers,
but Michael Davitt, who was present,
pleaded with the people not to use violence,
and barely managed to avert a collision.
After the Lyddy family had been evicted
the police made an attack upon the house
of named Mcnamara, which was
and hole was made through the wall.
Mrs Mcnamara and her children were in
the house and cried piteously until Mr..
DaVitt shouted words of comfort to them.
Mcnamara was arrested for peltlng the
bailiffs, who smashed the furniture of the
house out of pure malice. Leaving the
house of Mcnamara the evictors proceeded
to the house of Hussey, whose eviction
was unSnccessfully attempted few days
ago. He had prepared to receive the
bailiffs by filling his house with friends
and barrIcading every door and window.
. AS the evicting party came within reach
the occupants of the house showered boil
ing water upon their heads and pelted them
with stones, bottles, etc, until they were
compelled to retreat. Repeated assaults
were made upon the house, but each time
the assailants were driven back until at
last the troops were ordered to fire upon
the building at the next assault should the
shower of stones and hot water be kept up.
The bailiffs, under cover of the troops,
again advanced upon the house, and with
some difficulty battered a hole in the wall,
through which they entered. A fierce fight
ensued within the house, resulting in the
repulse of the balliffs, who were tumbled
out through the hole in the wall bleedln g
and with their clothing nearly torn from
them. Another party succeeded them, and
after entering the building forced the oc-
cupants out, accomplishing the eviction
after u hard fight, lasting two hours and u
half from the time OF the first assault. The
male defenders of Hussey'S house, includ-
ing Hussey himself, We're arrested. After
the eviction of Hussey meeting was held,
which was addressed by Michael Dewitt,
who repeated the advice he gave yesterday
to resist eviction by all possible means, and
reiterated his defiance of the Government
to arrest him.
ALLEGED ISHUMANITY.
OTTAWA, Ont, June Am additional pa
per In relation to the seizure of the BIRTHS h
Columbia whalers in Behring's Sea was
laid before Parliament yesterday. 1t con-
sists of a dispatch from Lord LansdoWne,
dated May 2l, to Sir Henry Holland, Sec
rotary for the Colonies, transmitting tue
views of the Privy Council of Canada on
the subject, based on the report by Hon.
George E. Foster, Minister of Marine and
Fisheries. This, after recitinS the particu-
lars of the seizure already given, proceeds
minister Foster further states that
from information received from the owners
of the seized vessels and from the
collector of customs at Victoria, he learned
that James Ogllvie, an ola man and master
of the Carolina, was arrested along with
the masters and mates of the Onward and
Thornton, and brought into court for trial
that before sentence was pronounced he
was suffered to wander away into the
woods. where he died from exposure, and
that the other masters and mates, after re-
manning several months in prison, were re-
leased by order of the Governor of Alaska
and turEad adrift literally destitute to
find their way as best they could to their
homes 1-5Q0 miles Distant
Further ON the report says: "The owners
of the condemned vessels have received nc
information from the United States authorl-
ties of the release of their vessels or res
toration of valuable cargoes of sealskins
and equipments ON board. They fear that
the Indians will have carried every thing
valuable fnem the vessels, and if the
owners are compelled to receive them
at OunalaSka, where they were
detained, it will neceSsitate the charterng
,of steamer with men and supplies at
great expense and u round voyage of 5000
miles to bring the vessels to Victoria. The
owners therefore consider this good ground
for claiming consideration from the United
States authorities when the question of
PREPARATION is being settled"
The Prlvy Council concur in the report of
the Minister of Fisheries and ask the Gov
= .ernor General to 'iean the attention of her
Majesty's Government again to the
grave injusticeS done by the United States
authorities to British subjects, peaceably
pursuing their lawful occupation on the
high seas, and to the great delay which has
taken place in inquiring into and re-
dressing the wrongs committed and to
Ghe severe, inhospitable and unjustifia5le
treatment of the officers and crews of YES
sells seized and to the serious loss inflicted
upon the owners Of the same, inOrder tina.
f&1 and speedy PREPARATION may be made by
the United States Government"
Somebody to Blame.
HARTFORD, Conn. June 4-TwO err load q